Robert Julian Archibald Cuming
From The Dreadnought Project
Lieutenant Robert Julian Archibald Cuming, (29 May, 1902 – 19 February, 1930) served in the Royal Navy. At some point, perhaps after 1924, he changed his name to the cumbersome Robert Julian Archibald Cuming Gibson Craig.
Life & Career
Cuming was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 July, 1924.
On 13 November 1924, he was severely reprimanded by sentence of a Court Martial for allowing K 22, to which he had been appointed as navigator the previous December, to be stranded.
Cuming died when a car in which he was a passenger fell into a dock in Portsmouth Dockyard.
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Naval Appointments | ||
Preceded by Lancelot L. B. Myers |
Captain of H.M.S. H 43 26 Aug, 1929[1] – 19 Feb, 1930 |
Succeeded by David Tod |
Footnotes
- ↑ Cuming Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/148/641. f. ?.